Fresh and exciting new company, Grassroots Opera, will be performing their production of Gluck’s powerful work, Orfeo ed Euridice, in Uplyme Church on Friday the 23rd of February 2018 and St. Giles Church, Kilmington on Saturday the 24th February 2018.
Grassroots Opera, founded by Soprano, Chloe Stratta and Mezzo Soprano, Anna Marie McLachlan, are young professional singers passionate about bringing opera to rural locations. We present opera in an intimate setting, in its original language, with an exciting cast and creative team of emerging young professional artists.
Orfeo ed Euridice, with its plot originating in Greek mythology, focuses upon the grief of Orfeo at the loss of his wife Euridice, and his journey into the underworld when given by Amore (the personification of love) one last chance to retrieve her from eternal bliss. But is there more pain to be had in fighting nature? Can Euridice really be brought back, or has Orfeo been driven mad by grief? In this production, Grassroots Opera explore the lines between love and obsession, reality and imagination.
